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    Tone: The tone of Huckleberry Finn is innocent to me. Huckleberry is a young boy that is just now being educated against his personal preference and he doesn’t fully understand the concepts of religion‚ education and life itself. “Then she told me all about the bad place‚ and I said I wished I was there. She got all mad then‚ but I didn’t mean no harm.” Another example of tone is informal humor. Huckleberry is says and does things throughout the story that were not initially supposed to be. “Hello

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    Breaking the Chain In the pre-civil war era of the United States‚ the act of assisting a fugitive slave was punishable by imprisonment. Though‚ this does not stop young Huckleberry Finn from aiding slave and fellow companion Jim‚ to a life of freedom in Mark Twain’s‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Both Huck and Jim are forced to escape the small town of St. Petersburg‚ Missouri and coincidentally seek refuge on Jackson Island in the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim elect to team up and journey

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    Society establishes their own rules of morality‚ but would they be accepted in these days? Mark Twain once wrote that Huckleberry Finn is a boy of “sound heart and deformed conscience”. Twain is saying that Huck is a good person‚ but his society has twisted him so that his conscience gives him bad advice. In the novel‚ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ Huck is a young boy torn between what society expects of him and what his heart tells him is right. The overall influence that has deformed

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    city’s outdoor speaker system‚ which has been installed on a few main streets downtown. The program is phased in gradually. Music is played on the system on some days but is purposely not played on other days. This procedure enables the manager to compare differences in the number of individuals cited for loitering on music days and nonmusic days. Ms. Waldo runs a regression in which the number of individuals receiving either warnings or citations for loitering (LOIT) is the dependent variable. The

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    Compare the film ‘the matrix’ with Plato’s allegory of the cave. The Allegory of the Cave is one of Greek philosopher Plato’s most well known works. It is an extended allegory‚ where humans are depicted as being imprisoned by their bodies and what they perceive by sight only. In the allegory of the cave Plato wanted to show how true reality is not always what it seems. A group of prisoners were chained up in a cave since there childhood‚ each prisoner was chained to each other by their heads

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    In Plato ’s "The Allegory of the Cave‚" Socrates tells an allegory of the hardship of understanding reality. Using metaphors Socrates compares a prisoner in an underground cave who is exploring a new strange world he never knew of to people who are trying to find a position of knowledge in reality. Through it‚ Plato attempts to map a man ’s journey through education and describes what is needed to achieve a perfect society. According to Socrates‚ most people tend to rely on their senses excessively

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    seems‚ as seen in Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave.” Metaphysics aims to answer: what‚ most fundamentally‚ is real? In the film‚ The Machinist‚ I noticed that philosophical theme throughout the movie and as a viewer‚ I was determined to answer that question. In “The Allegory of the Cave‚” Plato‚ a Greek philosopher‚ compares the mind to the Realm

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    5/12/12 The Allegory of the Cave This world has seen many ideas come‚ and many ideas go. Some ideas have been very beneficial and have stuck with society‚ such as Alexander Belle Grahams invention of the telephone. Others have not been so successful and have proved to be a pointless invention‚ such as the snuggie. Some would think that the ideas of a man who lived thousands of years ago would not still apply to the world today‚ but those people would be wrong. The ideas that Plato presents about

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    He describes a cave where prisoners are chained to a wall and cannot turn their heads‚ but only face straight toward a wall. This cave is all they know‚ they have never experienced any other reality. Behind them is a large fire‚ and in front of that fire people pass with objects and animals‚ reflecting images onto the wall that

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    This idea of the truth of enlightenment is explored in both “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato‚ and The Matrix by the Wachowski sisters. Both works discuss the concepts of ignorance‚ enlightenment‚ and

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